Hello, I received recently a mail from Samuel Verschelde asking me to look again at the list of un-maintained packages in mageia (either http://pkgsubmit.mageia.org/data/unmaintained.txt or by mgarepo maintdb get | grep nobody). Thanks for the reminder !
I was really surprised of what I found, and I'm pretty sure some people have not registered themselves as package maintainer correctly. I can't believe we could have a working distribution without people in charge of: attr basesystem bind bison busybox cpio curl cvs docbook-* dosfstools findutils flex gdb ghostscript grub gzip initscripts inn keychain less lilo locales logrotate lzma mageia-release man man-pages mkinitrd mt-st mtools ncurses netcat-traditional ntp openjade openssl openvpn pam parted passwd procmail sane sgml-common shorewall sqlite sudo sympa sysstat tcp_wrappers tcpdump tcsh termcap traceroute udev util-linux-ng xinetd xmodmap (And this is really a list of what looks to me mandatory, I'm sure each here will make its own, with differences). As much as I'm willing to maintain packages, I don't think I'm the most qualified to take some of these. However, a distro without them maintained has no future :-( So I guess there is something wrong here. Or are we so few that nobody want to take these ? I'm willing to contribute, already "own" 29 pkgs (but some of these because I thought I'd rather take them than leave unmaintained, even if surprised) but don't have that much time, nor expertise to add the full list ! Any taker ? Greetings, Bruno. -- Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA http://opensource.hp.com Open Source Solutions Initiative Chief Technologist http://hpintelco.net FLOSS projects: http://mondorescue.org http://project-builder.org Musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org
